fSKNATE  Bill,  No.  84.1 

SENATE.  Novemher  8,  186  I— Read  first  and  second  time!?,  and 
referred  to  Committee  on  Finance.  Nov.  28,  1864. — Reported  with 
an  amendment,  and  bill  and  amendment  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[Mr.  Hfll,  by  leave.] 


A.  BILL 

To  construe  and  declire  more  explicitly  the  meaning  of  **  An  Act  to 

increase  the  compensation  of  the  heads  of  the  several  Executive 

departments,  and  the  assistant  Secretary  of  War  and  the  Treasury, 

and  of  the  assistant  Attorney  General,  and  the  Comptroller  of  the 

Treasury,  and   other   officers  therein  named,"  approved  June    14, 

1864. 

1         Section    1.    The  Congress  of  the  Cov federate  States  of  America 

£    do  enact,  That  it  is  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of  the  above  ro- 

S     cited  act,  that  the  salaries  of  all  the  heads  of  bureaus  in  the  va- 

4  rious  civil  Departments  in   the  city  of  Riclmond,  shall   be  in- 

5  creased  thirty-three  and   one-third  per  cent,  for  one  year,  from 
S    tue  passage  of  said  act. 


To  regulate,  for  a  limited  period,  the  compensation  of  the  ofiicers, 
clerks  and  cnjplo^^ees  of  liie  civil  Uepanmcnts  oi  liic  uovcrntnent, 
in  the  city  of  Richmond. 

1  Section  1.   The  Congress  rf  the   Confederate   States  of  America 

2  do  ^nact,  That,  for  the  period  of  twelve  months  irom  and  after  the 

3  passage  of  this  act,  the  salaries  to  be  paid  in  lieu  of  all  other 

4  compensation  to  the  officers,  clerks  and  employees  of  the  civil 

5  departments  of  the  Government,  hereinafter  mentioned,  in  the 

6  city  of  Richmond,  shall  be  as  follows  : 

7  I.  Heads  of  the  several    executive    departments,  nine    thou- 

8  sand  dollars  per  annum.  , 

9  II.  Assistant  Secretary  of  War,  eight  th|tusand  dollars  per 

10  annum  ;  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  and  Assistant  At- 

11  torney  General,  each,  six  thousand  dollars  per  annum. 

12  III.  Treasurer,  Register   of  the   Treasury,  Comptroller   and 

13  Auditors,  the  Commissioner  of  Taxes,  Commissioner  of  Patents, 

14  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs,  each,  six  thousand  dollars  per 

15  annum. 

16  IV.     The  Superintendent  of  Printing,  and  the  chief  clerk  of 

17  each  of  the  Executive   Departments,  five  thousand  dollars  per 

18  annum  ;  all  other  clerks  in  said  Departments,  and  in  the  offices 


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19  of  the    Commissioner  of  Taxes,  Commissioner   of  Patents   and 

20  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs,  each  four  thousand  five  hundred 

21  dollars  per  annum:  Provided,  That  no  clerk,  whose  compensa- 

22  tion,  according  to  laws  in  force  prior  to  the  Ist  day  of  January, 

23  1664,  was  less  than  fifteen  hundred  dollars  per  annum,  shall  b« 

24  paid  more  than  four  thousand  dollars  per  annum.     Messengers 

25  in  the   several  Executive  Departments  and  in  the  President's 

26  office,  each,  fifteen  hundred  dollars  per  annum. 

27  V.  Private  Secretary  of  the  President,  four  thousand  five  hun- 
2S  dred  dollars  per  annum.     Private  Secretary  of  the  Vice-Pres- 

29  ident,  two  thousand  dollars  per  annum. 

30  VI.   Secretary  of  the  Senate  and  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Rep- 

31  resentatives,  each,  five  thousand  dollars  per  annum.     Assistant 

32  Secretary  of  the  Senate,  Sergeant-at-Arms  of  the  Senate  and 

33  of  the   Ilouse  of  Representatives,  and  all  other   clerks  of  the 

34  Senate  and  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  each,  four  thousand 

35  five  hundred  dollars  per  annum.     Doorkeeper  of  the  Senate  and  of 

36  the   House  of  Representatives,  each,  four  thousand   dollars  per 

37  annum  ;  Aseistant  Doorkeeper  of  the  Senate  and  of  the  House 

38  of  Representatives,  each,  three  thousand  five  hundred  dollars  per 

39  annum. 


